Natalie Fullerton’s parents were thrilled to watch their year-old daughter bounce back from a double-lung transplant. Within months, she was mimicking her sister’s ballet poses and gleefully repeating the word "purple." Her father, Leslie, carefully tended to Natalie, following an intricate regimen to keep her healthy. After doctors implanted a tube in Natalie’s chest to […]
An Inconvenient Truth (Global Warming)
You look at that river gently flowing by. You notice the leaves rustling with the wind. You hear the birds; you hear the tree frogs. In the distance you hear a cow. You feel the grass. The mud gives a little bit on the river bank. It’s quiet; it’s peaceful. And all of a sudden, […]
NASA spacecraft successfully lands near Mars’ north pole
A NASA spacecraft plunged into the atmosphere of Mars and landed in the Red Planet’s northern polar region on Sunday to begin 90 days of digging in the permafrost to look for evidence of the building blocks of life. Cheers swept through mission control at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory when the touchdown signal from the […]
‘Smoking turns men bald’, new research claims
It is well-known to damage health. But smoking may also help make men bald. The habit is already linked to more than 50 different diseases including lung cancer, heart disease and impotence. Now, research has shown that puffing on cigarettes may worsen age-related hair loss in men. Male pattern baldness, which affects two-thirds of men […]